Friday, February 12, 2010

Mrs. Geography: "We're taking a cruise out of New York. We fly to Niagara Falls, and board the ship. From there it goes up to Alaska, and we spend a few days there, and after a week we're back in New York. I'm looking forward to it, because I've never been to Alaska before."

A friend of mine, who is a librarian, tells me stories of some of the patrons he gets to deal with.

My favorite story is about the two women who came in asking for a map. He tried to get more detail: local map, regional map, state map, country map, world map, something else?

It took a while and many questions until he was able to figure out what they wanted and just what they were trying to do.

It seems that these women met some men online and they were invited to go meet them in person. The thing is, these gentlemen lived in Egypt. Now, airfare to Egypt is quite expensive and they couldn't afford it. So they decided to drive.

You know how there are ferries that could take you from land or island to island in various places? They figured they could drive down the Florida Keys, take a ferry to, say, Cuba, drive across, take a ferry to another island, and so on, and so forth, across the Atlantic Ocean.

Anonymous: The St. Lawrence Seaway is more than the St. Lawrence River. It's an entire infrastructure that allows ships to go all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to Duluth (at the far west end of Lake Superior). It includes, for instance, the Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie while bypassing Niagara Falls.

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